Word: kickoffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...potential for electrifying run-backs after kickoffs and punts is never short-circuited in Canada; fair catches and downed balls are prohibited. On punt returns, even downfield blocking is illegal. The receiver is protected only by a mandatory 5-yd. neutral zone before he catches the ball. After that the runner is either obliterated or he makes a mad dash for daylight. In another novel twist called the rouge play, any punt, kickoff, or quick kick scores a point for the kicking team if the ball reaches the opponents' end zone...
...strange phenomenon occurs in the Elm City come the third week of November. Suddenly sportswriters take a liking to the shift button on their typewriters. If they quote anyone talking about the two teams' upcoming contest, the reference is not to 'the game' but to 'The Game.' And as kickoff-time approaches the sickness grows to epidemic proportions: no longer 'the game' or even 'The Game,' suddenly the confrontation is labeled 'THE GAME...
This afternoon in New Haven, Harvard's various fall intramural champions and runners-up will do battle with Yale's best teams, in the traditional kickoff to Harvard-Yale festivities. Undoubtedly, the biggest surprise to the Bulldogs will be the prominence of Lowell House teams...
...Harvard football faithful that left last Saturday's Princeton game with something just less than frostbite, there is good news. Next Saturday's contest at Brown has been selected by ABC for telecast as the regional game of the week. The network has pushed kickoff time back ten minutes to 1:20 p.m. because of the broadcast...
Taking the opening kickoff at their own 20 yard-line, the Tigers ran the quarterback option play to perfection and marched 80 yards to a touchdown and a 6-0 lead. The score aroused the Crimson defense, however, and they stifled the potent Princeton offense over the rest of the first half...